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Antonia Forster, die Schwester des Weltreisenden: ...

Antonia Forster, die Schwester des Weltreisenden: ...

Judith Macheiner

Die Lebensgeschichte der mutigen und für damalige Verhältnisse recht emanzipierten Antonia Forster, geboren 1758 - gestorben um 1820, wird trotz spärlichen Quellenmaterials hochinteressant und unterhaltsam nachgezeichnet.
Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: 1921-1970

Selected Letters of E.M. Forster: 1921-1970

Edward Morgan Forster

The correspondence of the distinguished British author, E.M. Forster, portrays his personal life and the development of his literary career
Frances Burney: A Literary Life

Frances Burney: A Literary Life

J. Thaddeus

Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality (New York: Vantage, 1980) 1:87–9. The author of The Sylph is usually given as Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1757–1806), but Antonia Forster has found evidence that it might be by ...
Mary Queen Of Scots

Mary Queen Of Scots

Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser's bestselling biography of one of the most romantic and controversial figures in British history, reissued to celebrate the publication of Antonia Fraser's memoir, MY HISTORY.
The History of the Book in the West: 1700–1800

The History of the Book in the West: 1700–1800

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... the essay: Antonia Forster (2001), 'Review Journals and the Reading Public', in Isabel Rivers (ed.), Books andTheirReaders in EighteenthCentury England: New Essays, London and New York: Leicester University Press, pp. 171–90.
Aboriginal Music in Contemporary: Echoes and Exchanges

Aboriginal Music in Contemporary: Echoes and Exchanges

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3 Antonia Mills conducted her initial fieldwork with the Dane-zaa while she was married to Robin Ridington and initially published under the name Antonia Ridington. Since 1978 she has published under the name Antonia Mills. 4 Robin and ...
Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England: Volume 2 ...

Books and Their Readers in 18th Century England: Volume 2 ...

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... t0 Chalmers Isabel Rivers Review Journals and the Reading Public Antonia Forster Literary Scholarship and the Life of Editing Marcus Walsh The Production and Consumption of the Eighteenth-Century Poetic Miscellany Michael F. Suarez  ...
The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

The Oxford Handbook of the Eighteenth-Century Novel

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3 For more detail of the complexities of the division between main articles and monthly catalogue articles, see Antonia Forster, 'Book Reviewing', in Michael F. Suarez and Michael L. Turner (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, ...
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

Peter Holland

2^ Pytrfjdsl^Cstijrsyi The Taming of the Shrew Through the Years Antonia Forster Reviewing the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2003 production of The Taming of the Shrew in Shakespeare Bulletin, Thomas Larque comments that director ...
Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive ...

Charles Stewart Parnell, A Biography: The Definitive ...

F.S.L. Lyons

Forster to Gladstone, 7 April 1882 (T. Wemyss Reid, Life of the Rt. Hon. W. E. Forster, pp. 549–51). Pall Mall Gazette, 3 April 1882; Forster to Gladstone, 4 April 1882 (T. Wemyss Reid, op. cit., p. 547). Forster to Gladstone, 18 April 1882 (T.
Popular and Elite Understandings of Miracles in Enlightened ...

Popular and Elite Understandings of Miracles in Enlightened ...

Wilfred Graves (Jr)

Antonia Forster notes: Griffiths was publishing 1000 copies of each issue of the Monthly, rising to 2500 in 1758, 3000 in 1768, and 3500 in 1776. Davies estimates a sale of 6000-7000 in 1785 (Davies, 3.560) and Timperley gives a sales figure ...
Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774

Index to Book Reviews in England, 1749-1774

Antonia Forster

Jan Fergus and Ruth Portner, "Reviews and Readers: Provincial Subscribers to the Monthly and Critical Reviews and the Books They Read, 1 758-80," paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association of America,  ...
Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady

Antonia Augusta: Portrait of a Great Roman Lady

Nikos Kokkinos

This is the first general book on Antonia Augusta in any language.
The Long View: Picador Classic

The Long View: Picador Classic

Elizabeth Jane Howard

As Antonia looks towards her future, the novel steadily moves backwards in time, tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad to its beginning in the 1920s, through years of mistake and motherhood, dreams and war.
Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Hidden Lives: A Family Memoir

Margaret Forster

Margaret Forster's grandmother died in 1936, taking many secrets to her grave.
A Change Had To Come

A Change Had To Come

Gwynne Forster

Now she'll have to decide if she wants to let down her guard, and let in the one man she could get serious about. Praise for the Novels of Gwynne Forster. . . ".
Peiresc's Mediterranean World

Peiresc's Mediterranean World

Peter N. Miller

A group of students have over the years assisted in preparing images and organizing data: Christine Wilmot, Yenna Chan, Martina D'Amato, Antonia Behan , and Maude Bass-Krueger. I am especially grateful to Antonia and Maude for work ...
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins: Thomas Hawkins

The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins: Thomas Hawkins

Antonia Hodgson

Based loosely on actual events, Antonia Hodgson's new novel is both a sequel to The Devil in the Marshalsea and a standalone historical mystery.
King Charles II: King Charles Ii

King Charles II: King Charles Ii

Antonia Fraser

Spanning his life both before and after the Restoration, Antonia Fraser's lively and fascinating biography captures all the vitality of the man and the expansiveness of the age.
Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North ...

Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North ...

Canadian Anthropology Society. Meeting

Meeting Antonia Curtze Mills, Richard Slobodin. Figure 5. Congenital marks on the helix of Edward Taylor's left ear. (Photograph Antonia Mills) Figure 6. Congenital marks on the helix of Edward Taylor's right ear. (Photograph by Antonia Mills).
Good Wives

Good Wives

Margaret Forster

What is the value of marriage today? Why do couples still marry in church? These are some of the questions Forster asks as she weaves the personal experience of forty years through the stories of three wives who have long fascinated her.
Robin Hood

Robin Hood

Antonia Fraser

Robin Hood, Maid Marion, Little John, Friar Tuck and the rest of the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest are all here, in stories packed with excitement, drama and romance. Antonia Fraser's masterly retelling is a classic.
Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of ...

Three Decades of Engendering History: Selected Works of ...

Antonia I. Castaneda

48. and Carol Douglas Sparks; Gosner and Kanter, especially the essays by Alvis E. Dunn, Martha Few, and Irene Silverblatt. Antonia I. Castañeda, "Marriage: The Spanish Borderlands," Encyclopedia of the North American Colonies, eds.
Queer Forster

Queer Forster

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Breaking the Engagement with Philosophy: Re-envisioning Hetero / Homo Relations in Maurice Debrah Raschke Forster begins The Longest Journey with a debate over whether "the cow is there" or not,1 over whether objects exist or not , ...
Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition ...

Euroscepticism in Contemporary British Politics: Opposition ...

Anthony Forster

Anthony Forster argues that euroscepticism, in addition to being a political stance, displays the seeds of becoming a new faith.
Isa and May

Isa and May

Margaret Forster

'Margaret Forster has always had the enviable gift of making her characters spring to life, and both Isa and May do just that' Allan Massie, Scotsman 'A sensitive and intelligent novel with passages of beautifully modulated pathos, while ...
My Life in Houses

My Life in Houses

Margaret Forster

I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new council house, to her beloved London home of today. This is not a book about bricks and mortar though.
A Passage To India

A Passage To India

E.M. Forster

E.M. Forster's classic novel is here adapted in this highly theatrical, humorous and faithful version for the stage by the author of BENT, Martin Sherman.Published to tie in with a major new production of A PASSAGE TO INDIA produced by ...
Promises to Keep: A Short Story

Promises to Keep: A Short Story

Elizabeth Haynes

'This is PC Dave Forster. He got the short straw.' PC Forster grinned. DI Carter disappeared shortly after that, back to the station. Yonder Cottage was a square, brickbuilt house separated from themain road by an overgrown hedge and an ...
The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

The Weaker Vessel: Woman's Lot in Seventeenth-Century England

Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser's bestselling account of the lives of women in seventeenth-century England.

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